Executive Chef (82011080)

Sodexo - Canada; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading service provider is looking for an Executive Chef in Toronto, Canada. This role involves delivering customer presentations, leading culinary content development, and collaborating across departments. The ideal candidate has a Culinary Arts Degree and at least three years of culinary experience in the Foodservice industry. Fluency in both French and English is required. Attractive benefits including a competitive salary package and opportunities for growth.

Benefits

Flexible work environment

Competitive compensation & great employee benefits

Training and development programs

Countless opportunities for growth

Qualifications

• 3+ years culinary experience in the Foodservice Industry (Corporate or Kitchen).
• Culinary Arts Degree.
• 3+ years working in your respective unit.
• Solution selling mindset with a creative ability to solve customer needs.
• Travel as needed outside of your unit around 10%.

Responsibilities

• Support the CD Team by delivering customer presentations.
• Lead culinary content development for culinary projects in North America.
• Coordinate efforts and resources with other departments.

Skills

3+ years culinary experience in the Foodservice Industry

Excellent communication and follow up skills

Solution selling mindset

Ability to collaborate with sales teams

Consumer/Operator Understanding & Passion

Education

Culinary Arts Degree

Job description

Company Description

Grow your career with a company that shares your passion! Our Corporate Services Division has an exciting new opportunity to join the Sodexo team as our next Executive Chef located in Toronto, Canada.

Salary: 85k -100k

Bilingual: French and English required.

At Sodexo, we go beyond traditional workplace solutions to create environments where employees thrive. From innovative culinary programs that bring daily delight to integrated facilities management that fosters productivity and well-being, our team plays a vital role in shaping thriving workplaces.

Our purpose is to create a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

Job Description

Background & Purpose of the Job

The way we improve the food experience for customers in the foodservice industry is through value‑added creativity and long‑term service and support. The Executive Chef role helps inspire everyone in every function to think food, kitchen, and customer first and is designed to add value to our customers with beneficial food solutions.

Who You Are & What You’ll Do

As an Executive Chef, you will support, from a culinary perspective, the CD Team by assisting in the delivery of critical customer presentations and new menu ideations. You will act as a savory expert. Lead the culinary content development for specific culinary projects in North America in conjunction with your chef peers and in collaboration with the Head chef. In particular, you will be an accelerator in the delivery of Savory/Scratch Cooking growth initiatives designed to enhance the value of UFS brands at both existing customers and new ones. Customer Chefs will work in concert with Marketing, CD Ops, Finance and Supply Chain to coordinate efforts and resources on behalf of their Zone. You are French Speaking with an ability to translate French into English, as well as having an understanding of metric and imperial.

Who You Are

You’re a born leader and self starter: You deliver success with customers in the market by jumping into the details with your CD team. You constructively challenge them in their existing ways of working and inspire them to discover elevated ways to succeed. You prioritize and take control of challenges as they arise.

You’re a dot connector: You coordinate Unilever resources to ensure alignment to the key priorities. You rely upon collaboration as a core principle of success. You network with decision makers both internally and externally across all sectors of the industry to expedite business acquisition.

You’re a paradox navigator: Routinely interface and work effectively with multiple internal departments/personnel, plus senior level and customer personnel, which may create complexity and time management challenges. You embrace the complexity and can creatively develop solutions to maximize business results.

Qualifications

What You’ll Need to Succeed

• 3+ years culinary experience in the Foodservice Industry (Corporate or Kitchen)
• Culinary Arts Degree
• 3+ years working in your respective unit
• Solution selling mindset with a creative ability to solve customer needs
• Ability to collaborate with sales teams to both hunt and farm for business in the market
• Understanding of the Broadline Distribution Network
• Experience selling branded food categories a plus
• Excellent communication and follow up skills throughout the layers of Unilever organization.
• Accountability to deliver KPIs, Goals as a team
• Business Planning and Implementation
• Consumer/Operator Understanding & Passion
• Travel as needed outside of your unit around 10%.

Additional Information

What Sodexo Can Offer You

Working with us is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater because we believe our everyday actions have a big impact. You belong in a company that allows you to act with purpose and thrive in your own way. In addition, we offer:

• Flexible work environment
• Competitive compensation & great employee benefits
• Training and development programs
• Countless opportunities for growth
• Corporate responsibility & sustainability
• An award‑winning employer for Sustainability, Diversity & Inclusion, Corporate Social Responsibility, and much more. View Sodexo’s latest awards here
• And so much more!

Sodexo is committed to Employment Equity and Diversity. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of national origin, race, religion, ethnic group, age, disability, gender, sexual preference, sexual or gender identity, status as a veteran or any other federal, provincial or local protected class.

We welcome and encourage applications from people with disabilities. Accommodation is available on request from candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Sodexo is committed to providing a safe and healthy working environment for our team members, customers, clients, contractors, business partners, guests, and members of the public with whom we regularly interact. We require that all new hires in hospitals, long term care facilities, and senior homes to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and may require any other new hires to be fully vaccinated based on the location and scope of their employment.